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| Accepting our differences (15/05/2008) | | | | | Related resources: Diversity and communities | Identities and cohesion | | Looking at social groups that are discriminated against and how that is manifested. Fun activity in which students design ad campaigns promoting the positive aspects of that group.
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155.1 k
5,119.0 k
| Community partners (15/05/2008) | | | | | Related resources: Diversity and communities | Identities and cohesion | | Student learn about the different responsibilities of community partners through a sorting activity and debate their functions through sets of organisational statements. | | Y7 | Y8 |
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| Diversity (15/05/2008) | | | | | Related resources: Diversity and communities | Identities and cohesion | | Takes a statistical look at the demographic of the UK population, particularly in relation to ethnic minorities. Students asked to compare their perceptions of diversity against figures. | | Y7 | Y8 |
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224.9 k
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| Diversity of identities (23/10/2008) | | | | | Related resources: Diversity and communities | Identities and cohesion | | Students explore some of the ways in which citizens’ identities differ and think about the impact that personal differences might have upon daily life. A party-planning challenge involves taking into account the needs and personalities of ten fictional Year-7 characters. | | Y7 |
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134.9 k
2,535.9 k
| Diversity of views (15/05/2008) | | | | | Related resources: Diversity and communities | Identities and cohesion | | Students learn to differentiate between fact and opinion. Followed by a fun role-play activity debating contentious issues in which that distinction is rather important!
| | Y7 | Y8 |
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91.3 k
952.3 k
| Immigration (15/05/2008) | | | | | Related resources: Diversity and communities | Identities and cohesion | | Challenging and creative activity in which students write a diary entry for a failed asylum seeker, a teacher working with a new refugee student or an adult refugee learning to adjust. | | Y8 | Y9 |
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109.0 k
102.9 k
| Immigration and the media (10/08/2010) | | | | | Related resources: Diversity and communities | Identities and cohesion | | Have your Year 10s bought into the media’s negative portrayal of immigrants? Challenge stereotypes with this thought-provoking lesson about differing reactions to Britain’s diversity. | | Y10 |
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29.9 k
62.0 k
| Immigration in the UK - Lesson 1 (24/07/2008) | | | | | Related resources: Diversity and communities | Identities and cohesion | | A probing start to this series of three lessons, which explores students' opinions and preconceptions about immigration into the UK. | | Y7 | Y8 |
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37.4 k
118.8 k
| Immigration in the UK - Lesson 2 (24/07/2008) | | | | | Related resources: Diversity and communities | Identities and cohesion | | This second lesson in a series of three looks at modern multicultural Britain through demographic statistics and interviews with refugees about their experiences. | | Y7 | Y8 |
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117.9 k
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| Immigration in the UK - Lesson 3 (24/07/2008) | | | | | Related resources: Diversity and communities | Identities and cohesion | | This final lesson in a series of three looks at some key 'waves' of immigration into Britain and challenges students to tell the story of these waves through a fun comic-strip activity! | | Y7 | Y8 |
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92.3 k
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| Immigration into the UK (07/06/2010) | | | | | Related resources: Diversity and communities | Identities and cohesion | | Your Year 9s will know what the papers and adults at home say about immigration. Isn’t it time they made up their own minds? Posters, speeches and a class vote will provide interesting food for thought. | | Y9 |
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854.0 k
1,529.3 k
| Jamaica - shared values and diverse beliefs (28/05/2008) |  | | | | Related resources: Diversity and communities | Identities and cohesion | | Students acquaint themselves with Jamaican culture's influence on the UK via a fun sorting activity, a video of the Notting Hill Carnival and making up their own poem out of Jamaican patois! | | Y7 | Y8 |
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| Shared values and diverse beliefs (24/07/2008) | | 
| | | Related resources: Diversity and communities | Identities and cohesion | | Students examine the positive and negative aspects of diversity through reading poetry by immigrant writers. They are then challenged to compose their own acrostic poem about diversity! | | Y7 | Y8 |
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115.9 k
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| The changing nature of UK society (01/06/2010) | |
| | | Related resources: Diversity and communities | Identities and cohesion | | Change is a constant process in the UK. Can your students grasp the difference between modern culture and life when their grandparents were teenagers? Lively discussion will include computing, religion and sexuality. This topical lesson is available for members only on a special preview basis. | | Y9 |
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124.6 k
100.9 k
| The Facebook generation (26/05/2009) | |
| | | Related resources: Diversity and communities | Identities and cohesion | | Students explore the definitions of identity, cohesion and community. They engage in a class debate about the effects of modern technology upon communities and think about ways in which identity, cohesion and community are changing within the Facebook generation. | | Y9 |
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38.5 k
353.8 k
| The immigration debate (15/05/2008) |  | | | | Related resources: Diversity and communities | Identities and cohesion | | Using a news video about the debate over immigration, students take a closer look at the pros/cons. Extension activity - write a think-piece advocating opposite views to their own. | | Y7 | Y8 |
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51.7 k
1,854.0 k
| You and your area (15/05/2008) | | | | | Related resources: Diversity and communities | Identities and cohesion | | Students represent life in their area by packing a 'suitcase' full of illustrative examples. Students will look for similarities with others' suitcases and draw parallels. | | Y7 | Y8 |
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